The Florida Department of Children and Families has asked a judge to shut down a boot-camp style military academy with a record of abuse allegations. Alan Weierman, who operates the Southeastern Military Academy in Port St. Lucie, says the state's case is a "vendetta," the Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times reported. The state, which lost an earlier bid to close theRead more

A fire at an elementary school in Lahore, Pakistan, left at least 21 children and a teacher with burn injures, officials said. The fire started when the teacher struck a match to light the classroom's gas heater, Geo News reported. Firefighters arrived on the scene and put out the flames, a rescue official said. The injured children, all between 10Read more

Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah attended today part of a national forum on making education relevant to the workplace for youth in Jordan, one of a number of U.N.-led consultations in the country on the shape of the post-2015 global development agenda. Her Majesty attended a roundtable discussion on the second day of the February 19-20 National Forum onRead more

Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah attended today part of a national forum on making education relevant to the workplace for youth in Jordan, one of a number of U.N.-led consultations in the country on the shape of the post-2015 global development agenda. Her Majesty attended a roundtable discussion on the second day of the February 19-20 National Forum onRead more

A group of high-mark Kuwaiti students, dispatched by Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED), has toured ancient landmarks of this tourist city, namely old mosques and relics dating back to the 1299-1923 Ottoman empire. The students, during the first day of the programmed tour, visited Sultan Ahmed Mosque, also known as the Blue Mosque, built by Sultan Ahmet inRead more

Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KAFED) has organized a recreational tour for Kuwaiti students of excellent records to the Sri Lankan tourist city of Kandy, which is also distinguished with some of the country's major industries. The high-mark female students, taking part in KFAED's special educational-entertainment program, "be excellent," started their exploration adventure with a visit to Pinnawala Elephants'Read more

Students from over 10 schools across the country on Tuesday reflected on their experience in exchanging views with their counterparts from around the world to promote interfaith tolerance and change stereotypes of Islam. Some 380 Muslim and Christian students from around Jordan met at the Islamic Scientific College at an event organised by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation as partRead more

Virginia school officials agreed to rescind a disciplinary note after parents complained about their child being suspended for mimicking a gun with his fingers. The child, 8, was playing with another boy who pretended to shoot him with a bow and arrow. The child in question "returned fire" by making a gun motion with his hands, pretending to shoot theRead more

His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa today received at Al-Sakhir Palace newly-formed Isa bin Salman Education Charity Fund board of trustees' chairman Shaikh Isa bin Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa. Deputy Premier and Education and Training Development Committee Chief Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al-Khalifa attended the meeting, along with Education Minister and fund deputy chairman Dr. Majid bin Ali Al-NuaimiRead more

Sudan Certificate Examinations will start on March, 23 and end in April, 3. 2013 . SUNA learned that the number of the students who will sit for the exams amounted to 439,650 distributed in 2,650 examination centers inside the country and 17 centers abroad .Read more